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An example of _______________ would be when a child is bitten by a dog and then is afraid of all small animals.

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Stimulus generalization.

Step-by-step explanation:

Stimulus generalization is called the cognitive pattern of behavior by means of which, when the person (or even the animal) is at an early age where the processes of cognitive associations are not fully formed and suffers a shock situation (be this positive or negative), will tend to associate all subsequent similar situations to that previously experienced shock situation.

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